1 Chronicles 8:35
in 1 Chronicles 8The sons of Micah: Pithon, Melech, Tarea, and Ahaz.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
KJV
And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 8
Commentary
3 notes on this verseAnd the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz. The last but one is called Tahrea, 1Ch 9:41, where Ahaz is left out, though supplied in our version.
This site's exposition
the sons of Micah were
on 1 Chronicles 8:35-40
Micah's line runs six generations past him, Jehoadah to Azel, and Azel's own six sons are named individually rather than folded into a summary, an unusual density this late in a Benjamite roll. The record does not stop at Saul's death on Gilboa or at David's dynasty replacing his house; it keeps counting fathers and sons long after the kingdom left this family, evidence the compiler still held records for a line whose claim to the throne was long over. The chapter closes on Ulam's sons, archers and mighty men of valour a hundred and fifty strong, and Henry reads the note as praise for service rather than for rank, a family remembered for usefulness once the crown was gone from it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
They are Jasher, Jeshurun--just ones, and the memory of the just is blessed. Many of these we have reason to fear, came short of everlasting honour (for even the wicked kings of Judah come into the genealogy), yet the perpetuating of their names here was a figure of the writing of the names of all God's spiritual Israel in the Lamb's book of life.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וּבְנֵ֖י | uvenei | and [the] sons of | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| מִיכָ֑ה | mikhah | Micah | H4318 → | 33 times |
| פִּית֥וֹן | piton | Pithon | H6377 → | |
| וָמֶ֖לֶךְ | vamelekh | and Melech | H4429 → | |
| וְתַאְרֵ֥עַ | veta'rea' | and Tarea | H8390 → | |
| וְאָחָֽז׃ | veachaz | and Ahaz | H271 → | 42 times |
וּבְנֵ֖יand [the] sons of
uveneiH1121 →4930 times
מִיכָ֑הMicah
mikhahH4318 →33 times
פִּית֥וֹןPithon
pitonH6377 →
וָמֶ֖לֶךְand Melech
vamelekhH4429 →
וְתַאְרֵ֥עַand Tarea
veta'rea'H8390 →
וְאָחָֽז׃and Ahaz
veachazH271 →42 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.